Category: Ventura Pier
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Goleta Pier Redux
The Goleta Beach Pier has been in existence, in one form or another, since the early 1930s. When I first moved to Santa Barbara, CA 40 years ago it quickly became my fishing hub. Though, today it is 1450 feet in length, when I first started fishing off of it, it was only about a […]
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Today I was ready for anything…
I have been having some issues with the line on my Wishing Pole which I keep on the ocean’s bottom hoping to lure in a big fish. The line on my new reel was the 35-year-old line that I had on my old reel. It was getting fragile and I did not have enough of […]
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Innovation? Yeah, I can do that!
When I fish on the Ventura Pier, I have two parking options. One is to pay $10 for a day permit (it is as low as $2 in some other city parks) or park on the other side of Highway 101 and take the pedestrian overpass to the pier. I, and most other fisherman, choose […]
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Furled Flags? Forget Fishing!
Having fished for most of the past 60 years, I know that fishermen are a superstitious lot, but I am not one of them since I don’t believe that fishing has anything to do with luck. So, I don’t go through any particular ritual before I fish or when I am fishing. I also do […]
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Special days…
From FB posting of August 14, 2019 Today was a very special day of fishing on the Ventura Pier. It was NOT because I caught 14 Mackerel (7 are pictured, the others went to other fishermen for bait or back to the ocean). It was NOT because a huge fish hit my heavy pole so […]
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Croaker Tsunami
From FB Post of August 8, 2019 Today’s fishing effort picked up right where it left off yesterday. I caught my first fish on my first cast. It was a Croaker, one of seventeen Croakers that I caught along with two Perch and two Smelt one of which was a foot long. It was lucky […]
The Old Man & The Seas 